Have you heard the one about the lawyer and the bible? Despite the set up, it is no comedy, moreover, a poignant family tale from Victorian times. Now I know I said in my last outing that it would be the final part of our “Tales from Carribee Island”, but […]
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An Island Far Away? Despite sounding somewhat similar to the Caribbean Islands, the area of Wolverhampton City Centre once known as “Carribee Island” was no place in the sun! “CRIBBEY – ISLAND” the place was called, yet twas no harbour seen; Nor, save the songbirds patch of turf, a single blade […]
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THE LONG JOURNEY HOME Now I’ve never been over fond of the eastern side of town, Heath Town and Wednesfield in particular, and perhaps the reason for this stems back from a tiresome day spent during the summer of 1944 of which I still recall to this […]
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The landscape of so many cities and towns throughout Britain has changed dramatically since the war especially the centres containing the streets with the various individual shops sitting side by side. Wolverhampton, for example in the heart of the “Midlands’ was never a classic picture postcard town I suppose mainly […]
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WHAT’S HAPPENED TO NORTH STREET? North Street. dominated by the Telephone exchange ,on one side and the Civic Centre on the other – is not really a street any more since the ring road came and cut it in half. Today in 2015, with Wadhams Hill gone, The Town Hall, Civic Hall […]
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The Grand Theatre the only surviving theatre in the Black Country today in 2013, designed by eminent architect Charles J. Phipps, and constructed by Wolverhampton builder Henry Gough in the splendid location of new Lichfield Street, in 1894. It is today considered by many as the finest theatre in […]
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The way to handle “The Birds” came naturally to my father Jack Howe A story of Market Life My father, was introduced to working life in Wolverhampton markets by his boyhood friend Tommy Wright, who’s uncle, Albert Thomas owned a local fish merchant business. During the first World war every […]
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The telegram said ‘killed in action’ and the tears flowed. But this wartime hero had a cold nose and four legs. Doris Blakeley nee Berry recollects a wartime memory: Doris Berry was born in Chester Street, Whitmore Reans in 1921, but when she was five her grandmother who had a […]
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THE BARBERS! A pre-war child’s definition.. A shop or front parlour, where a parent (usually father) took a boy to be almost scalped, and to indulge himself in a masochistic act of being singed across the back of the head with a flaming taper. This practice went on at least […]
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SHAMROCK RECIPIENTS: Father William Rooney assisted by Altar-boy William Howe giving Shamrock to schoolchildren at St Patrick’s Church, Wolverhampton, this morning on the occasion of St Patrick’s Day 1949. The flag of St Patrick adorned the pulpit in St Patrick’s Church, Wolverhampton today as the large congregation attended High Mass […]
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A fresco; which now has unfortunately been lost to the public eye. Was once on the south side of the Chancel of St Peter’s Collegiate Church, representing ‘The Lost Piece of Money’ and it commemorated the building and the endowment of St Mary’s Church thus – “Give God the glory […]
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Query Corner “Hello Billy, I found your email address on your blog – which I stumbled across by accident. I moved from Wolverhampton more than thirty years ago but often look at the City websites to keep up-to-date. For many years, I have been trying to find someone with knowledge […]
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